| Literature & Arts | REY | Margret produced the text while H.A. Rey drew the man in the yellow hat and his monkey. |
| History & Government | GOTTI | "Teflon Don" John Gotti, the head of the Gambino family since killing Paul Castellano in 1985, was convicted on fourteen counts including murder, racketeering, and tax evasion. |
| Geography & Nature | OHIO | Other famous Buckeyes include Drew Carey, George Custer, Thomas Edison, James Garfield, John Glenn, Lil' Bow Wow, Paul Newman, Pete Rose, Steven Spielberg, and James Thurber. |
| Entertainment & Food | MONK | North Carolina-born New Yorker Thelonious Monk was known as the founder of bebop. |
| Math & Science | NOAA | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began giving tropical cyclones female names during World War II and added male names to its lists in 1978. |
| Sports & Games | FAVRE | Southern Mississippi grad Brett Favre threw 38 and 39 touchdown passes for the Green Bay Packers. Kurt Warner set the current record with 41 in 1999. |
Quiz Quilt Answer: VANITY (Third letters going up)
"Vanity Fair", or "place of meaningless frivolities", comes from John Bunyan's 1678 allegory "Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come".
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